Tech Talk for the Middle School

I recently had a discussion with a collegue regarding using her school webpage to share homework information with students. In my school all teachers post their homework on their website daily. Some of the faculty are resistant to this practice.

The first side is against posting homework for students. Posting homework is creating bad organizational habits. Students are not writing thier homework down in an agenda because they know that it will be posted online. If the teacher is unable to update the webpage some students and unfortunaly parents use the webpage as an excuse to not get work done.

My arguement is for posting homework for students. College sylubus’s can  be found online when you take courses. This is the future and showing students how to use technolgy to obtain important information is a great organizational habit. I feel that students are ultimately responsible for writing down their work if the website goes down or is not updated it is still the students responsiblilty. The value of sharing information online is huge. Parents can check thier childs homework from thier job, home, or any location in the world. More parents work today than ever before they can now have more information quicker and easier.